Nation

Scoton

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Region: Pacific Northwest

In the record

The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Scoton as a party: Chasta, Scoton, and Umpqua at Council Ground Opposite Mouth of Applegate Creek, Rogue River, Oregon Territory (1854).

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 1 cession of land from Scoton in 1854: about 540 thousand acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. It came through treaties made under documented pressure.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Treaty under documented pressureShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

The record over time

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Land recorded as ceded

Scoton About 540 thousand acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894

Treaty under documented pressure540 thousand

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

1 cession. Follow Scoton through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

Native legal and land defense, nationally

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Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website

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Connections

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Party to 1

Chasta, Scoton, and Umpqua at Council Ground Opposite Mouth of Applegate Creek, Rogue River, Oregon Territory (1854)1854

Land recorded in this nation’s name 1, as named in the 1899 record

Land of the Chasta, Grave Creek and others in Oregon, ceded 1854 (area 343)1854

Sources

No source is linked to this record yet. That is a gap we are working to close.

Research notes

Spelling as printed in NARA (TLA-T-278); identification not resolved.

Kind: Nation
Confidence: Medium
Nation review: Not yet reviewed by this nation

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